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- Aspirants Of APC Accuse Party’s NWC Of Fraud, Wants Primaries Annulled
- Nollywood Actor, Jim Iyke, Disowned By Taxi App Owners, As They Call Him An Impostor
- Governor Yari Gives Insight On His Dumping APC
- Throwback Photo Of Buhari, Oyegun, Others Protesting On The Streets Against FG
- El-Rufai Enumerates Senator Shehu Sani’s Sins Against President Buhari
- Elumelu Gave Delegates $1,500 Each, Against N100,000 Gov. Okowa Directed -Says Mrakpor
- JUST IN: PDP Presidential Candidate, Turaki Asks Delegates To Vote For Saraki
- PDP Presidential Primary Election: Live Updates, Results & Situation Room Report(Photos)
- Saraki Speaks On ‘Stepping Down’ For Atiku Over PDP Presidential Primary
| Aspirants Of APC Accuse Party’s NWC Of Fraud, Wants Primaries Annulled Posted: 06 Oct 2018 06:15 PM PDT
Aspirants that participated in the All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives primaries held in Ekiti State on Friday, have called on the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to cancel the outcome of the election.DAILY POST reported that the aspirants from Ekiti North Federal Constituency I; Hon Bimbo Daramola, Bunmi Ogunleye and Olufemi Ajayi , accused the Dr. Ibrahim Sule-led National Working Committee for the National Assembly primary in Ekiti, of manipulating the process in favour of aspirant found to have political tie with some leaders of the party in the State.They insisted that there was no ward where election was held in the two Local Governments of Oye and Ikole, alleging that the figures were concocted in favour of Barrister Peter Owolabi , following failure by some leaders to get him the ticket via consensus arrangement.At a press conference held in Ado Ekiti on Saturday, Daramola advised the APC to abide by the tenets of democracy they were fond of preaching, rather than being hypocritical by doing what negates the ideals they preached.The former member, House of Representatives, challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Department of StateServices (DSS) and the police to present the reports of the primary to substantiate whether election was truly held in the federal constituency. "This brazen daylight robbery has the capacity to injure not only the reputation of our party but also create bad blood among our members . They should stop behaving in an unruly manner , because we are facing the PDP next year's February in major elections. "What we saw yesterday in Ekiti North Federal Constituency 1, was a travesty , it wasn't a reflection of the peoples will. The results announced for our brother, Mr. Owolabi was a disappointment and brazen desecration of democracy in our land. "APC was supposed to be a party for change. I have been part of its struggles giving everything to the party . If I will lose a poll, it should be in an honourable manner. The primary is not about us, but about our people. If we must practice what we preach, I do not expect what happened in Oye and Ikole Ekiti on Friday. "Contrary to what the chairman from Abuja, Dr. Sule said that no photocopy would be used for results sheets , but in Oye, we have evidence that photocopies were used. They brought photocopies that are not visible which are not what as much as a tissues paper with no numbers, no index, but original ones were sent to Iloro ward 2 in Ekiti Central. "I personally feel that that is not the appropriate step to take. I also saw a video clip on social media where they said I scored 2,000, in an election without materials, it was a sad day for our party. "We plead with our party to do justice in this regard by cancelling the outcome of the primary in the interest of our party's reputation that was being damaged," he said. Other aggrieved aspirants, Messrs Ogunleye and Ajayi added that democracy was murdered by the action, saying no election was held in the federal constituency and that electoral officers did not report in any of the ward in Ikole Council area. Ajayi said: "it is high time we stopped behaving as if our people don't matter. Our people should determine who wins any primary and not by imposition. Many old and young people waited in the sun , but results were written and these results were concocted by those who announced them. "We aren't say our party leaders don't matters, but where they want a consensus candidate, they should carry everybody along . But that wasn't done, I am insisting that there was no poll in lkole LGA, but a winner was announced. I didn't know where they got the results. "If anyone would emerge as our representative, the people must be given the liberty to have inputs. APC shouldn't continue this way." Related Topics: #APCEkitiPrimaryElection #2019Election Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Nollywood Actor, Jim Iyke, Disowned By Taxi App Owners, As They Call Him An Impostor Posted: 06 Oct 2018 05:47 PM PDT
Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke, have been disowned by the owners of Mr Taxi App, an internet enabled transport firm, dismissing his alleged claim of owning the company.Chief Operating Officer of the company, Mr Austin Nnaemeka, at a press conference to herald the launch of the company in Awka, Anambra State on Friday night, described the controversial actor as an impostor, saying he had no contribution whatsoever in the setting up of the company, DAILY POST reports.Nnaemeka further stated that, contrary to the claimed ownership of the company by the Nollywood star, he (Iyke) was only contracted as a brand ambassador of the company, but was relieved of his job after he started claiming ownership of the company."Jim Iyke is my friend, and I brought him in as a brand ambassador of the company, just like Rachael Okoli and other celebrities here, but he started asking questions that were out of his scope."He later started looking for a way to sway us into making him a shareholder, and then started parading himself as the owner of the company. He was warned once, and again, making it two times before we relieved him of his job."I am using the opportunity of this press conference to state emphatically that Mr Jim Iyke is not the owner of Mr Taxi, and has no contribution in the company, that is what I want to tell you today," said Nnaemeka, who was accompanied by staff members of the company, including; the legal adviser and chief executive officer. The launch was graced by celebrities including Jerry Amilo, music sensation, Timaya, TBoss of the Big Brother Nigeria fame, among others. Related Topics: #JimIyke #NollwoodActor #MrTaxiApp Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Governor Yari Gives Insight On His Dumping APC Posted: 06 Oct 2018 04:47 PM PDT
Governor Abdul'aziz Yari of Zamfara State has reacted to some media reports making the rounds that he has dumped the All Progressives Congress,APC following recent crisis in the state.Yari however dismissed the report, saying nothing will make him defect from the party, DAILY POST reports.The Governor noted that no amount of pressure will make him dump the ruling party."I remain in APC and I will never leave the party. No amount of pressure will make me leave the APC."I was among the founders of this party, I was in Lagos, Nasarawa states for meetings before we gave birth to the APC, therefore no amount of pressure will make me to leave the party."You know, changing political party is not my tradition, therefore I will not change the party and the rumour going round is not true, I am not under any pressure to leave the party." Few days ago, some APC governors including Yari on Thursday met with Adams Oshiomhole over crisis in the state primaries. However, on Friday, the APC National Chairman, Oshiomhole expelled Zamfara party executives insisting that the botched primary election will still hold. Oshiomhole also warned Gov.Yari not to interfere in the election of the state, insisting on direct primaries in the state. Related Topics: #Yari #Oshiomhole #APCZamfara Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Throwback Photo Of Buhari, Oyegun, Others Protesting On The Streets Against FG Posted: 06 Oct 2018 04:56 PM PDT
The All Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari; then APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun and former Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, led thousands of party supporters in a protest rally in Abuja, on Nov. 19, 2014, accusing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led Federal Government of playing politics with Boko Haram.It could be recalled that the APC tagged the protest 'Salvation Rally', was aimed at drawing global attention to what the opposition party described as deliberate hijack of the Nigeria police and other security agencies by the ruling PDP.They also accused the then President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP of gross incompetence and unprecedented display of impunity.Read full story here:Related Topics: #Buhari #APC #RotimiAmaechi Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| El-Rufai Enumerates Senator Shehu Sani’s Sins Against President Buhari Posted: 06 Oct 2018 01:00 PM PDT
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State Governor, has said President Muhammadu Buhari directed him to initiate the recall of Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna central district, over acts of contempt and disloyalty.The Governor disclosed this in a letter dated October 2 to the president.In the letter, he listed the 'compendium' of sins committed by Sani against him, the president and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Daily Post reports.According to the letter which read, "When your excellency travelled to London in April 2018 for medical consultation, Shehu Sani ridiculed it on Facebook as 'Voyage to London, Season 3."In May 2018, he lamented what he said was Buhari's three years of failure to protect human lives."In the same month, he wrote that 'Baba should protect his testicle from any man who always bends down to greet him."Your excellency will recall that earlier this year, you directed me to initiate processes to recall Shehu Sani from the senate to punish his repeated acts of contempt and disloyalty. "Following your directive, our team in Kaduna studied what was being done in Kogi state regarding the recall of Dino Melaye and drew up a budget. Upon examination of the costs and loopholes in the recall process as brutally exposed in Dino Melaye's case, and in recognition of the immense of preparations for the next elections, it was decided that it may be more prudent to oust him at the ballot. "The party executives in his ward in Kaduna suspended him from APC in December 2015 for negative comments about your Excellency. It was later extended to indefinite suspension in 2016." Related Topics: #ElRufai #ShehuSani #Buhari #KadunaState #APC Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Elumelu Gave Delegates $1,500 Each, Against N100,000 Gov. Okowa Directed -Says Mrakpor Posted: 06 Oct 2018 12:27 PM PDT
Mrs. Amaechi Mrakpor, an outgoing member of the House of Representatives for Aniocha/Oshimili constituency of Delta State, has accused the winner of Wednesday's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary for the Aniocha/Oshimili constituency, Ndudi Elumelu, of disobeying Governor Ifeanyi Okowa's earlier directive not to give any delegate more than N100,000 each during the primary.The primary, which was conducted amidst heavy shooting midway into the counting of votes, followed by disruption of the exercise by the federal lawmaker, as well as the slapping of an electoral officer by the state PDP chairman, Mr. Kingsley Esiso, saw Ndidi Elumelu emerge winner with 266 votes, Sahara Reporters has reported.He was declared winner by the Returning Officer, Uzor Nwadu, with Mrakpor scoring 226 votes.Speaking with journalists in Asaba, the Delta State capital on the outcome of the primary, wife of the Delta State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mrs. Mrakpor, alleged that her closest rival induced more than 500 delegates with $1,500 each, noting that the action was a violation of Okowa's earlier directive that no aspirant should give more than N100,000 to each delegate for logistics.Mrakpor said: "On the night of October 1, some delegates from my local government informed me that Elumelu was giving delegates $1,500. I didn't quite believe it because, before then, the governor had announced that no aspirant should give any delegate more than N100,000 for their accommodation, transport and feeding."That was the briefing we got and I got ready with N100,000 each. But by the night of October 1, I received a phone call that Elumelu was giving out $1,500 or N550,000 and I confirmed it." Mrakpor, said to be Okowa's 'anointed' candidate, alleged that after Elumelu voted, "he came back and started campaigning to the delegates while voting was going on. After that he brought out a Ghana-must-go bag and started sharing jollof rice and chicken and nobody cautioned him. "I was trying to be obedient. He shared about $800,000, and just yesterday morning, he went out again to share another 'dollars for breakfast' to the delegates. Nobody stopped him." Mrakpor said. In a swift reaction, Elumelu refuted all the allegations levelled against him by Mrakpor, and urged her to accept defeat and work with him. It was reliably gathered that Okowa was not happy that his preferred candidate, lost the ticket, and that the governor has not forgiven Elumelu for refusing to step down for him during the PDP governorship primary in 2014. He is said to have ordered that the primary be conducted again so as to favour the incumbent federal lawmaker. Meanwhile, in following the governor's directives for a repeat of the primary, Mrakpor mobilised delegates loyal to her on Friday to the cenotaph, venue of the rerun primary, where they waited all day for PDP and INEC officials, who did not show up until Mrakpor and her delegates left the venue disappointed at about 5:30pm. Sources in the PDP confided in our correspondent that Tony Elumelu, elder brother to winner of the primary, who is chairman of United Bank for Africa, has contacted Governor Okowa over the development, warning him to desist from the arrangement for a repeat of the primary. Source: Sahara Reporters Related Topics: #Okowa #DeltaStatePDP Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| JUST IN: PDP Presidential Candidate, Turaki Asks Delegates To Vote For Saraki Posted: 06 Oct 2018 10:00 AM PDT
Nigeria's major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is having their National convention today and tomorrow at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.It has been reported that one of the 13 aspirants fighting for the party's ticket, Tanimu Turaki, has asked PDP delegates to vote for Saraki if, for whatever reasons, they reject him.Tanimu Turaki, stated this and added that only him and Saraki possess the pedigree, competence and character to solve Nigeria's problems, Vanguard reports.Turaki said, should the delegates reject him, that they should however, not hesitate to vote for Saraki whom he said is his brother.According to him, "People have been arguing that there are a lot of presidential aspirants in PDP. And people are laying ambush, thinking that this election process will create a lot of problem that they could benefit from."And all of us are speaking to ourselves as speaking to each other "And we agree that anybody who gets the ticket among us, that others will line up behind him. "Both of us have experience. Both of us have knowledge and integrity. "Both of us have character and both of us have that competence. And when you look at our antecedents, our backgrounds, our pedigree, its impeccable". "So I say to Nigerians, particularly PDP delegates, for if for whatever reasons you don't want me, take Abubakar Bukola Saraki as my brother". "I believe that between the two of us, that the problems of Nigeria will be solved decisively," he concluded. Related Topics: #PDPNationConvention #Saraki #2019Election Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| PDP Presidential Primary Election: Live Updates, Results & Situation Room Report(Photos) Posted: 06 Oct 2018 10:01 AM PDT
The two-day National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, started today and will end on Sunday.The Nigeria's main opposition party will be electing its presidential candidate to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2019 presidential election.The party has 13 aspirants jostling for the sole ticket of the party in the primaries that will be held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.The PDP has settled for the indirect mode of primaries to pick its candidate.Others candidates are two-time Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi: Attahiru Bafarawa, a former governor of Sokoto state; the Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo; a former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki; A former member of the House of Representatives, Datti Baba-Ahmed; the immediate past President of the Senate, David Mark; and a former Governor of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang.Read the situation room report below as reported by the DAILY POST live from the Rivers State capital, as things unfolds: 12:30 pm All the aspirants are currently in a crucial closed door meeting ahead of the presidential primary Delegates from Imo and Anambra States gathered and speak to Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki at the venue of the convention. After meeting with the delegates, Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, also qouted Saraki's media team as saying that "Saraki, Obi In Crucial Meeting Ahead of Today's Convention: Dr. Saraki and former Governor of Anambra State, Dr Peter Obi, met this morning in Port Harcourt" 12:01 pm Delegates from Imo and Anambra States gathered and speak to Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki at the venue of the convention.
11:00 am Delegates, food vendors, traders in various consumables, stickers and caps have set up canopies around the Adokiye Amasiemaka Stadium, venue of the 2018 National Convention of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents at the venue report that some of the delegates have also been sleeping in vehicles parked within the open spaces around the stadium since Oct. 5. Similarly, posters of the 13 aspirants jostling for the party's Presidential ticket at the Convention conspicuously adorned streets leading to the stadium. The aspirants are: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; Sen. Bukola Saraki; Ibrahim Dankwambo;Rabiu Kwankwaso; Aminu Tambuwal; Ahmed Makarfi; and Jonah Jang. Others are: Sen. David Mark; Sule Lamido; Atahiru Bafarawa; Tanimu Turaki; Datti Baba-Ahmed; and Stanley Osifo. The presence of Nigeria Police personnel and sister security agencies were also noticeable at the stadium gates and around the stadium to maintain law and order. Praise singers with various musical instruments professing the virtues of their candidates also thronged the venue. Accreditation of delegates had not started at the time of filing this report. A delegate, Alhaji Kure Aminu, told NAN at the Sokoto State pavilion that delegates from the state were ready for the convention, saying that Tambuwal, who is also from Sokoto State, would win. Delegates from Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo separately told NAN that they were voting for aspirants they believed would win the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the PDP. Garba Iliyasu, a delegate from Bauchi State, also expressed confidence that PDP would win in the 2019 elections.        Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||||
| Saraki Speaks On ‘Stepping Down’ For Atiku Over PDP Presidential Primary Posted: 06 Oct 2018 02:18 AM PDT
Dr. Bukola Saraki, Nigeria's Senate President, has made it clear he will not step down for former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) prepares to hold its presidential primary this weekend.There have been some speculations in the media, that Saraki is under pressure to withdraw from the race and support Atiku's ambition.However, in a phone chat with DAILY POST, Yusuph Olaniyonu, the media aide to the Senate President, rubbishes such stories."Please, please, please.. what kind of story is that?"How can a leading candidate step down for somebody else? I have never heard of that before."You can go to Port Harcourt and see for yourself, that Saraki is a top contender for the ticket," Olaniyonu said.PDP's presidential primary is scheduled to hold on Saturday, September 6 to Sunday, September 7 in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. Other candidates that are still in the race as at press time, include Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal; Sule Lamido, former Governor of Jigawa State and former Foreign Affairs Minister; David Mark, a former Senate President and Ibrahim Dankwambo, the outgoing Governor of Gombe State. Related Topics: #Saraki #PDPPresidentialPrimary #2019Election Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
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